To: CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru, lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr
Subject: *complete* WLCY
Message-Id: <E11yRkY-00057A-00@topo.math.u-psud.fr>
From: Laurent Siebenmann <lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 04:38:42 +0100


Dear Vladimir,

 Incidentally, the AMS openly invites others to complete 
and support the WLCY variant of the AMs WNCY fonts.  It 
would be ideal if your group would do this since this list 
is well placed to debug and criticize them, if that proves 
necessary.  The full WLCY is a smaller job than the one 
you have just done for the WN fonts! 

Let me note a neat simplification that applies to sites at 
which Tom Rokicki's postscript "font map" mechanism is 
used.  There it is unnecessary to install the ".vf" files. 
For example, to serve wlcyr10, it suffices to install 
wlcyr10.tfm and add a font map:

   wlcyr10   wlcyr10  <wncyr10.pfb

A quite general but less widely available trick is to 
replace wlcyr10 by wncyr10 (for example) in the DVI files 
using a simple utility (unfortunately not available 
everywhere). Then the DVI file is legal and portable 
worldwide, since the WNCY fonts are ubiquitous. 

       Cheers

           Larry Siebenmann


PS.  A still simpler trick is to replace one's own WNCY 
tfm fonts using copies of the WLCY tfm fonts having 
checksums changed to be those of WNCY.  The resulting DVIs 
are perfectly OK and perfectly portable as Dmitry Vulis 
already observed in the 1980s. Unfortunately this is a 
dirty trick NOT to be done on a public installation! (Well 
you can do it privately on a public unix system: add your 
private tfm directory to your private tfm search path.)